Wall Street Journal - Dec 31 2022 - Ball Drops

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Clues Answers
“I’m ___ white” (lyric from the “Hair” song “I’m Black”) RINSO
“Ish” SORTA
“Little House on the Prairie” surname INGALLS
“Shiny Happy People” band REM
“The Cocktail Party” playwright ELIOT
“The Horse Whisperer” director REDFORD
“The Pearl Fishers” composer BIZET
“Two, two, two mints in one!” brand CERTS
1977 Ted Nugent song CATSCRATCHFEVER
1989 Broadway play set in a writer’s Manhattan apartment TRU
2015 Kenny G album that includes “Girl From Ipanema” BRAZILIANNIGHTS
210-square-mile U.S. territory GUAM
A matter of degrees? HEAT
Anarchic, say INCHAOS
Aquaman’s home ATLANTIS
Arizona and South Carolina’s state birds WRENS
Attempt STAB
Audition award PART
Authenticate CERTIFY
Band’s playlist SET
Basic girder IBEAM
Bat-making need LATHE
Battle of Britain org RAF
Before, poetically ERE
Blow away AMAZE
Blue, in Bolivia AZUL
Board, to boarders MEALS
Boston Beer Company’s flagship brand SAMUELADAMS
Buff buff NUDIST
Bunny boss, familiarly HEF
Camden Yards team ORIOLES
Center’s job SNAP
Chiding sound TUT
Club hit, often REMIX
Co-star of Gene, Peter, Marty, Cloris and Madeline TERI
Code name MORSE
Collar NAB
Connection for 71-Across AMP
Contract composition TERMS
Corned-beef-and-sauerkraut sandwiches REUBENS
Crayola color renamed “peach” in 1962 FLESH
Cruel one SADIST
Cruise stop ISLE
Director of “If....” and “O Lucky Man!” LINDSAYANDERSON
Disordered INAMESS
Disoriented OUTOFIT
Diva Jenny LIND
Divas’ deliveries ARIAS
Diverse assortment MELANGE
Does some gamboling PRANCES
Dr. Jekyll’s forename HENRY
Dragster booster NITRO
Everything not specifically left to someone in a will RESIDUARYESTATE
Expression of contempt SNEER
Extra ADDED
Fender offering BASSGUITAR
Follow ENSUE
Forbidden pitch SPITTER
Fully cooked DONE
Had lofty plans ASPIRED
Hem’s partner HAW
Hermana de la madre o del padre TIA
High spirits CHEERINESS
Historical artifact RELIC
Hittite in David’s army URIAH
Hors d’oeuvre topping ROE
In the neighborhood ABOUT
Inc. kin LTD
Clues Answers
Inspired by BASEDON
Kings, on NBA scoreboards SAC
Leisure activity, briefly REC
Like John Wayne as Genghis Khan in “The Conqueror” MISCAST
Like some kitchens EATIN
Like some wine and cider MULLED
Like the “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” airing LIVE
Long sentence RUNON
Lush SOT
Manhattan’s 14,600 ACRES
Mar. honoree STPAT
Mysterious glow AURA
Name-dropping abbr ETAL
Nautically-named newspaper feature MASTHEAD
Neighborhood AREA
Nick and Nora’s dog ASTA
Not new USED
Notable span ERA
Noted baseball routine WHOSONFIRST
Number before quattro TRE
Org. with lots of schedules IRS
Oscar nominee for “Lawrence of Arabia” OMARSHARIF
Outstanding Drama Series Emmy winner in 1987, 1989, 1990 and 1991 LALAW
Pale green color SEAMIST
Paternity prover DNA
Performing particularly well INRAREFORM
Place STEAD
Police trap STING
Prevented from scoring DENIED
Puts out SEDATES
Raunchy reading SMUT
Rehnquist’s successor ROBERTS
Rep. opposer DEM
Repair shop courtesy LOANER
River under the Brooklyn Bridge EAST
Ruby on screen DEE
Scattered STREWN
Serve the champagne POUR
Shakespeare’s “tricksy spirit” ARIEL
Singer nicknamed “The Velvet Fog” MELTORME
Ski resort in the Wasatch Mountains ALTA
Spades, in Spades TRUMP
Sports sites STADIA
Square where the words in this puzzle’s dropping balls may be heard at the end of a song’s first verse TIMES
Starting point of a phone tree MAINMENU
Successful pitcher SELLER
Suit EXEC
Surgical instrument PROBE
Surname on orange wrappers REESE
Swampy spot MIRE
Tempt LUREON
They’re found between the shoulders ROADS
Thread component EMAIL
Torment oneself STEW
Undermine ERODE
Unescorted LONE
Unmatched ODD
Up ___ good TONO
Venezuelan piranha CARIBE
Was incoherent BABBLED
Weigh station unit TON
Well-muscled BUILT
Wide boot letters EEE
Wimple wearer NUN
Word of appreciation from Apollinaire MERCI
Writers Radcliffe and Beattie ANNS
Youngest of the Weasley boys RON
___ in “apple” AAS